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2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.

Table 3_1_3.1Patients with treated chronic kidney failure who received a transplant within 3 years of date of renal failure,a United States, 2000-2005

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

Population group

Percent

SE

Percent

SE

Percent

SE

Percent

SE

Percent

SE

Percent

SE

Total

17.4

0.2

18.0

0.2

17.9

0.2

18.5

0.2

18.5

0.2

19.2

0.2

Age

0-19

68.2

1.4

68.0

1.4

69.9

1.3

68.4

1.4

67.8

1.4

68.0

1.4

20-39

28.9

0.5

31.1

0.5

31.2

0.5

32.4

0.5

32.4

0.5

33.9

0.5

40-59

17.0

0.2

17.6

0.2

17.6

0.2

18.0

0.2

18.9

0.3

19.5

0.3

60-69

9.7

0.2

9.6

0.2

9.3

0.2

9.4

0.2

8.1

0.2

8.4

0.2

Gender

Male

18.7

0.2

19.4

0.2

19.5

0.2

20.1

0.2

19.9

0.2

20.8

0.3

Female

15.5

0.2

16.2

0.2

15.9

0.2

16.4

0.3

16.7

0.3

17.4

0.3

Race

White

22.2

0.2

22.8

0.2

23.3

0.3

24.0

0.3

24.6

0.3

25.2

0.3

Black

9.7

0.2

10.0

0.2

9.4

0.2

9.8

0.2

9.1

0.2

10.0

0.2

American Indian/Alaska Native

9.8

1.0

11.0

1.0

8.7

0.9

12.6

1.1

8.7

0.9

13.3

1.1

Asian

17.4

0.8

19.7

0.8

21.1

0.9

20.5

0.9

18.8

0.9

19.9

0.9

Ethnicity

Hispanic, all races

14.0

0.4

14.1

0.4

14.9

0.4

14.9

0.4

15.3

0.4

15.9

0.4

Non-Hispanic, all races

17.9

0.2

18.7

0.2

18.4

0.2

19.0

0.2

18.9

0.2

19.8

0.2

Non-Hispanic, White

24.6

0.3

25.4

0.3

25.7

0.3

26.4

0.3

26.8

0.3

27.5

0.3

Non-Hispanic, Black

9.6

0.2

10.0

0.2

9.3

0.2

9.8

0.2

9.1

0.2

10.0

0.2

a. All Medicare dialysis patients who initiated therapy in the given year were included. Patients with prior kidney transplants and patients over the age of 69 were excluded from the measure. Percentages are estimated using the Kaplan-Meier methodology. Followup is censored at removal from the list, death, or the end of the 3-year period.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, U.S. Renal Data System.